Ticks (song)

"Ticks" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Brad Paisley. It was released in March 2007 as the first single from the album 5th Gear. It reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart and was featured as a downloadable track for the video game Guitar Hero: World Tour. Paisley wrote this song with Kelley Lovelace and Tim Owens.

Content

The song's main character is at a bar, attempting to pick up a date. In doing so, he uses several humorous pickup lines, such as "I'd like to check you for ticks."

Paisley stated that the song is not about blood-sucking insects but in fact a guy flirting with a gal. Paisley was inspired to write the song from experience working on a farm, “Working out here on the farm, I literally have to check for ticks every time I come in from the woods or the fields,” he notes. “Now, if a young guy who lives in the country were to take a girl into the woods for any reason, it would totally cross his mind that she’s going to have to check for ticks when they come back out. So it seems that an enterprising guy would at least consider that he could offer to check for her.”^[1]

Reception

Kevin John Coyne, reviewing the song for Country Universe, gave it a C- rating. While he says that the production is good, "this may be the very first mainstream country single to completely skeeze me out." ^[2]

Music video

A music video was released to promote the single. It shows Brad and his band live in concert singing the song.

Personnel

Ron Block - banjo
Randle Currie - steel guitar
Eric Darken - percussion
Kevin "Swine" Grantt - bass & upright bass
Wes Hightower - background vocals
Gary Hokker - baritone & 12 string guitar
Gordon Mote - clavinet
Brad Paisley - lead vocals, lead and rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, Tic tac bass
Ben Sesar - drums
Justin Williamson - mandolin

Chart performance

Chart (2007)	Peak position
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)^{[ 1]}	33
US Billboard Hot 100^{[ 1]}	40
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^{[ 1]}	1

Year-end charts

Chart (2007)	Position
US Country Songs (Billboard)^[3]	20

Preceded by "Find Out Who Your Friends Are" by Tracy Lawrence	Billboard Hot Country Songs number-one single June 30, 2007	Succeeded by "Lucky Man" by Montgomery Gentry

References

↑ Brad Paisley biography at Arista Nashville website. Retrieved 30 Aug 2009
↑ Coyne, Kevin John (2007-03-09). "Brad Paisley - "Ticks"". Country Universe. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
↑ "Best of 2007: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2007. Retrieved December 13, 2007.

External links

Full lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

v t e Brad Paisley singles

Who Needs Pictures	"Who Needs Pictures" "He Didn't Have to Be" "Me Neither" "We Danced"

Part II	"Two People Fell in Love" "Wrapped Around" "I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song)" "I Wish You'd Stay"

Mud on the Tires	"Celebrity" "Little Moments" "Whiskey Lullaby" (with Alison Krauss) "Mud on the Tires"

Time Well Wasted	"Alcohol" "When I Get Where I'm Going" (with Dolly Parton) "The World" "She's Everything"

5th Gear	"Ticks" "Online" "Letter to Me" "I'm Still a Guy" "Waitin' on a Woman"

Play	"Start a Band" (with Keith Urban)

American Saturday Night	"Then" "Welcome to the Future" "American Saturday Night" "Water"

Hits Alive	"Anything Like Me"

This Is Country Music	"This Is Country Music" "Old Alabama" (with Alabama) "Remind Me" (with Carrie Underwood) "Camouflage"

Wheelhouse	"Southern Comfort Zone" "Beat This Summer" "I Can't Change the World" "The Mona Lisa"

Other songs	"Is It Raining at Your House" "Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy" "Everything and All" (with Randy Travis) "Accidental Racist" (with LL Cool J)

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